In any week Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani is photographed presiding over events from football finals to conflict negotiations. With a beaming smile he glad-hands power-brokers and ordinary citizens, the very model of a younger generation...
Just a couple of weeks after Princess Reema Bint Bandar Al-Saud joined the public policy advisory board of Uber, the ride-hailing giant on 1 June announced it had raised $3.5bn from the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund. Reema is a prominent...
Ruler Sheikh Humaid Bin Rashid Al-Nuaimi visited Jordan in late May, where he met various officials including House of Representatives speaker Atef Tarawneh. Meanwhile, his wife Sheikha Fatima Bint Zayed Bin Saqr Al-Nahyan attended a graduation...
Analysis that suggested reformists and centrists had won the battle but maybe not the war in Iran’s Q1 16 elections was confirmed when 90-year-old Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, was elected to lead the Majles-e Khobregan (Assembly of Experts) on 24 May...
Saudi-backed Al-Hayat Publishing is planning to leave London, where it has been registered and headquartered since the Arabic daily Al-Hayat’s purchase by Prince Khalid Bin Sultan in 1988. Its parent company Media Communications Group plc (MCG...
The deal for India to invest $500m in the development of Chabahar port, signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Iran which began on 22 May, is a useful fillip to President Hassan Rouhani’s efforts to show the nuclear deal, which...
Prospects for a settlement between the government and protestors appear as far away as ever, with a series of reports, statements and court sentences in May highlighting the wide gulf between the two sides. The government claimed on 9 May that it...
Gulf Co-operation Council leaders have committed to setting up a Commission of Economic and Developmental Affairs, “to enhance co-ordination… and accelerate the pace of joint action,” according to GCC secretary-general Abdul-Latif Bin Rashid Al-...
Banks came together in London on 26 May to compete for positions in a minimum $3bn syndication for Petroleum Development Oman (PDO). Pricing was expected to be extremely competitive, a banker told GSN, “not because Oman is seen as a particularly...
$50/bbl oil has been welcomed across the Gulf, but crude prices are still nowhere near the level needed for Bahrain to cover its costs; the International Monetary Fund calculates that $95/bbl-plus oil is needed to balance its books. In the...
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